Clues for the word "MEASLY"
We've had 42 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 69 times in crosswords. It was last seen in New Zealand Herald crossword on May 28, 2025.
Definition of measly
- a. - Infected with measles.
- a. - Containing larval tapeworms; -- said of pork and beef.
Referring Clues
- Like a pittance
- Slight
- Trifling
- Paltry
- Puny
- Contemptibly slight
- Contemptibly small, as an amount
- Unsatisfactorily small
- Annoyingly small
- Like five per cent, to a server
- Pitifully small
- Pathetically small
- Far from liberal
- Contemptibly small
- Like a 3 percent tip
- Skimpy
- Woefully small
- Insubstantial
- Contemptibly small, like a tip
- Ridiculously few in number
- Picayune
- Inconsequential
- Contemptibly small, as a tip
- Insultingly small, as a payment
- Ridiculously small
- Grossly inadequate
- Slay me (anag)
- Meagre in quantity (requiring 9 attention?)
- Paltry - with spots?
- A crafty setter on top - but pretty feeble
- Meagre meals cooked at Swinley Bottom
- Poor man's surely losing one
- Shamefully slight
- Extremely slight
- Paltry meals made with bread in Japan
- Spotted snake's head in prude's mouth?
- Spotted being of little consequence
- Setter: one sneaky and skimpy?
- Hardly generous
- Pathetically tiny, as a sum of money
- Far from fulsome
- Insultingly small
Last Seen In
- New Zealand Herald - May 28, 2025
- Your Life Choices - August 02, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - July 30, 2024
- New York Times - May 29, 2024
- Your Life Choices - December 25, 2023
- Your Life Choices - July 17, 2023
- New Zealand Herald - July 01, 2023
- New Zealand Herald - June 27, 2023
- Mindfood Daily - March 23, 2023
- New York Times - August 10, 2022
- New Zealand Herald - August 03, 2022
- Your Life Choices - July 26, 2022
- Netword - December 23, 2017
- LA Times - October 02, 2017
- New Zealand Herald - September 10, 2017
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - July 28, 2017
- New Zealand Herald - July 28, 2017
- Your Life Choices - June 08, 2017
- Universal - April 02, 2017
- Wall Street Journal - February 23, 2017
- Wall Street Journal - February 23, 2017
- Universal - February 08, 2017
- Guardian Prize - September 17, 2016
- Universal - March 15, 2016
- LA Times - January 15, 2016
- Netword - November 19, 2015
- Washington Post - February 08, 2015
- Universal - October 25, 2014
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - February 26, 2014
- Chronicle of Higher Education - December 13, 2013
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